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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Samir Kumar Rakshit, Bangalore, IN;
Inventor:
Samir Kumar Rakshit, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Symnatec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3265 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 9/3268 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for authenticating a secure sockets layer certificate (SSL) certificate are described herein. The methods include receiving the SSL certificate associated with a website, identifying a chain of trust associated with the SSL certificate, transmitting, to a security manager, a validation request based on the SSL certificate and a certificate in the chain of trust, receiving a validation response from the security manager, and presenting an indication of trustworthiness, to a user, based on the validation response. The apparatuses are provided to implement the methods.